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Carmine Appice
is probably one of the most respected drummers worldwide and his long and
varied career has seen him perform with some of the biggest names in
modern rock music. Including the likes of Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck and
John Sykes in one band or another, although it's his Guitar Zeus projects
in 1996 and 2001 that really saw Appice bring together the likes of Mick
Mars, Ted Nugent, Stevie Salis, Brian May, Slash, Ritchie Sambora, Yngwie
Malmsteen, Doug Pinnick, Vivian Campbell, Pat Travers and even John
McEnroe and Steven Segal on one project!
The two albums
were only available in Europe through import in the past but now Escapi
Music are set to release the best of these two albums on one disc entitled
‘Ultimate Guitar Zeus’.
The album opens
up with ‘Days Are Nights’, a track that feature the mighty Ted Nugent on
guitar and really gets this album off to a fantastic start. The
tracks may be old but they still sound fresh and show that a good tune is
timeless.
The album shows
the diversity of all the guitar players featured on the album with Brian
May lending his six string skills to ‘Nobody Knew’, a more gentle track to
that of the opener but still a stomping track and Mays immaculate riffs
near the end of the track are superb.
The album is
full of gems and gives credence to Appice and Kelly Keeling as songwriters
as well as first class musicians.
The album also
gave me an insight into the Rod Stewart classic ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’
that I never knew, the fact that Appice co-wrote the song with Stewart.
And the version of that song also appears on the album thankfully without
Stewart on vocals, but Carmine himself and helping him on guitar duties is
the legend that is Pat Travers, giving the track a lot more bite than the
Stewart version.
If you weren’t
able to get a hold of the original versions of the Guitar Zeus albums then
I would heartily recommend you go out a get a copy of Ultimate Guitar Zeus
you wont be disappointed. |
